Example sentences of "as they used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would have thought we would be watching the Kirov ( as they used to be ) performing a pas de deux from Antony Tudor 's The Leaves are Fading ? |
| 2 | The risk , they argued , was judging South Africa 's rugby resources as they used to be , not what they might become . |
| 3 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 4 | ‘ Not as thick as they used to be , ’ snorted Squeaky , ‘ not many big uns either . ’ |
| 5 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 6 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 7 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 8 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 9 | Women are not , however , forced into the worst aspects of this trade by their lack of money to the same extent as they used to be . |
| 10 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 11 | JEWKES : Here about my wrist as they used to be . |
| 12 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they used to be . |
| 13 | Mine are the only actually they 're not as bad as they used to be they need doing now but Daddy 's so they 're not too bad . |
| 14 | I mean we 're all worried in , in the world about cuts in various areas and the education area has its share of the cuts , we know the teachers are worried about their salaries and what 's going on in the schools , and even we hear from the University from time to time that they , things are n't as they used to be . |